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OnePlus has announced the global release of its latest flagship phone, the OnePlus 12 (which launched in China in December 2023), and we are here to compare it with Google's
The two phones are separated with a $200 starting price difference, with…

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ChargePoint (NYSE:CHPT) has undergone a lot of changes since reporting their lackluster q3’24 results. Inclusive of their challenging financial performance, ChargePoint appointed a new CEO, Rick Wilmer, to turn the …

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Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) Q4 earnings are on tap after the market close on Wednesday January 24, closing up a year in which aggressive price cuts helped the automaker top Q4 delivery estimates reach …

Alibaba's (NYSE:BABA) stock soared about 7% on Tuesday after the New York Times reported that co-founder Jack Ma has been buying up shares in the company.
Ma and Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai both have been buying shares, the report added, citing peo…

FILE – Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Maldives government has confirmed giving clearance to a Chinese ship to dock in i…

“The situation on the Korean peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950,” wrote noted North Korea researchers Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker this month in an attention-grabbing piece on the 38 North site.…

YouTube sensation MrBeast said he made over $263,000 from a single post on X — but added that it’s a “bit of a facade” and that others would have a hard time raking in such profits on the Elon Musk-owned platform.…
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11m ago 08.58 EST Shadow secretary for international development Lisa Nandy has joined workers from Tata’s Port Talbot steelworks at Westminster today: Photograph: Lucy North/PA
Updated at 08.58 EST
1h ago 07.51 EST Hundreds of millions of pounds extra…

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In an effort to ease the pressure that foreign students are putting on housing and health care, the federal government imposed an immediate cap on the number of international study visas that it issues and temporarily froze the applicatio…

The gunmen came for Alemetu when she was sleeping. They marched her out of her home in Ethiopia’s Oromia region and took her to a disused school in the countryside, where she was held hostage for four weeks.…
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Intermediate goods are inputs used to produce a final product. Think textiles to make a coat, metals to make a car, and computer chips to make an iPhone.
And as a research report published last week shows, tracing the flow of intermediate goods can als…

Uyghurs and Tibetan people demonstrate in front of the United Nations in Geneva during China’s last Universal Periodic Review by the UN Human Rights Council in 2018. © Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi
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Open this photo in gallery: Oleksandra Matviichuk was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for her work with the Ukraine-based Centre for Civil Liberties, but doesn't believe peace is possible yet in her homeland: 'Peace doesn’t come when a countr…

Global stocks neared one-month highs on Tuesday, after the Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged, bolstering the yen and Japanese stocks, while Chinese equity investors took little heart from speculation of a huge government rescue package.&#823…

Stock markets in China and Hong Kong have slumped to multi-year lows this week as confidence in the world’s second-biggest economy has evaporated and foreign money has fled, while data showed sputtering growth and deepening real estate malaise.…

Ningbo was shadowing HMAS Toowoomba as it sailed through international waters in the East China Sea en route to Japan on November 14 when it stopped to remove fishing nets that had become tangled around its propeller.…
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This is the latest instalment in the Guardian’s live coverage of the Russian war against Ukraine. Here are the developments:
A Russian missile attack has hit Kyiv and Kharkiv. Ukrainian officials said at least six people were killed and dozens wounded …

BEIJING (AP) — Twenty people are confirmed dead and 24 remain missing after a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of China's southwestern province of Yunnan, Chinese state media reported Tuesday.…
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(Bloomberg) — Chinese authorities are considering a package of measures to stabilize the slumping stock market, according to people familiar with the matter, after earlier attempts to restore investor confidence fell short and prompted Premier Li Qiang…

(Bloomberg) — Chinese authorities are considering a package of measures to stabilize the slumping stock market, according to people familiar with the matter, after earlier attempts to restore investor confidence fell short and prompted Premier Li Qiang…

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Mortgage switch
1. In today’s lead story, Jane Matthews reports that mortgage brokers are encouraging homeowners to switch mortgage providers well in advance of the end of their …